What To Do In Milan For An Authentic Experience
One of the great challenges of travel is figuring out how to spend your limited time in a place to maximize your experience. Our visit to Milan was an exception to this normal challenge as our stay was guided by our Milanese friend, Camilla. From a week this lovely...
Where To Eat In Milan
Food is one thing the Italians definitely know how to do right. Our stay in Milan just hammered that fact home as we got spoiled with culinary delights thanks to our wonderful friend and host, Camilla. Camilla is a native of Milan, and quite the foodie. She had the...
Where Are The Best Places To Go In Rome?
It seems that any trip to Italy would be incomplete without a stop in the city that was once the center of the world. We were only able to squeeze in three days here during our trip, which is obviously not enough time to see all there is to see in the storied...
Where To Get The Best Panini In Florence
You may have tried panini, those delicious Italian sandwiches, at some point in your home country, and if so you probably will have the urge to seek them out in their place of origin. Not only are they delectable, but they also provide an extremely convenient and...
How To Get Your Exercise In While In Florence
If you’re going to Florence for any extended period of time, you know you can count on one thing being at your disposal all the time: food. Pizza, pasta, focaccia, pasticcini…gelato. It’s a good thing the whole city is navigable by foot! Not to...
10 Fun Phrases In Italian – Idiom Edition
One of the most enjoyable ways to take your knowledge of a language to the next level is to learn some of its common and fun phrases. In the last language article we looked at 10 Useful Phrases in Italian, where we learned some common everyday phrases that are easy to...
What’s The Best Place To Get A Cheap Breakfast In Florence?
We all know how the expenses of traveling can pile up. Between paying for lodging, attractions, souvenirs, and meals out sometimes it can feel a little much. I certainly got to that point during our three-month-long European mega-trip, and the title question –...
Where’s The Best Place In Florence To Eat Lunch With A View?
Chances are after a morning of hoofing it around town visiting amazing Florentine landmarks you’ll be more than ready for a good lunch. And after being surrounded by such beauty all day thus far, it would be only fitting for your dining experience to continue...
10 Useful Phrases In Italian
Immersing yourself in a new culture can be intimidating at times. Even the simplest things like learning how to get to and buy things from the grocery store take some getting used to. Add a foreign language to the mix and the first week in a new place becomes even...Hey there, traveller!
We're Jordan and Kevin, high school sweethearts from San Diego with a healthy degree of wanderlust. After getting engaged on the Ponte Vecchio in 2015 during an incredible 2-month stay in Italy, we decided to make this website as a way to feature our travels more centrally in our lives while sharing what we've learned from them.
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